Gallery of Movement

Mrs. Grover Cleveland

Bishop James Walker Hood (1831-1918), who was "a large man of courage, conviction, and persistence." From Nova Scotia to North Carolina, Bishop Hood was a tireless advocate from the pulpit to politics. In North Carolina, credit his political influence during Reconstruction in expanding public education to include 71,000 black students by 1871.

Charles Milton Bell's youngest son, Colley. He served as Chief Justice Fuller's personal secretary as well as Charles Evans Hughes.

From c.1895, an unidentified widow whose husband's photo is noticeable in a mourning brooch she wears on her neck.

The Warfield family included five children, and we think this is young Ronald.

Associate Justice Joseph McKenna served in all three branches of the U.S. federal government, as a U.S. House of Representatives member, as U.S. Attorney General, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Mrs. Strong’s child

Graduate M.E. Turner sat for the camera of Charles Milton Bell c. 1888. In 1870, women accounted for only 21% of the undergraduate population. By 1890, the percentage had ascended to 47%. Learn more about the visitors to Charles Milton Bell's D.C. studio at www.cmbellstudio.com.

Olive Logan was an actress and author - declared an "Apostle for Woman's Freedom" by the Washington Post in 1907. Born in 1839, she attended Wesleyan Female College (1850–1) and the Catholic Academy of the Sacred Heart in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mary Uriel Walsh of the Sisters of Holy Cross. We learned that she died in 1925 and interred at Mount Olivet Cemetary in Washington, D.C.

William Jennings Bryan, “The Great Commoner”

Harriett D. Valentine was the wife of Charles Allcott Flagg, Assistant in Charge of the American history section in the Library of Congress. She was born in 1876 in New York and died in D.C. (1901) at age 24 during the birth of her son, Edward. The child would die 16 days after the death of his mother.